Re: [perl6/specs] 6ef69b: pod vars are now lowercase as seen in 3e1a9a5a576b...

2012-04-05 Thread herbert breunung
Thank you damian, i will apply that patch, Herbert Breunung asked: what was you rational behind this decision. I like it visually but my brain refuses to find any logic why only there special vars should be different. This change stems from another change that we made after discussions

Re: [perl6/specs] 6ef69b: pod vars are now lowercase as seen in 3e1a9a5a576b...

2012-04-04 Thread herbert breunung
/perl6/specs Commit: 6ef69b98d8afb6e33a271a466fb8e1beb7142eb8 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/6ef69b98d8afb6e33a271a466fb8e1beb7142eb8 Author: Herbert Breunung lichtk...@cpan.org Date: 2012-04-03 (Tue, 03 Apr 2012) Changed paths: M S28-special-names.pod Log

Re: question about twigil ?

2008-03-14 Thread herbert breunung
currently just used for compile time constants like $?LINE allright so far so good. but why not use that for all constants like my $?constant = 5; so it's compiletime (even late compiletime like in eval blocks) fix binding to a value. Because that variable comes from a different place

Re: question about twigil ?

2008-03-14 Thread herbert breunung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currently just used for compile time constants like $?LINE allright so far so good. but why not use that for all constants like my $?constant = 5; Because then you'd have to change existing code if you find out that constant was not so constant at all, and you'd

question about twigil ?

2008-03-13 Thread herbert breunung
currently just used for compile time constants like $?LINE allright so far so good. but why not use that for all constants like my $?constant = 5; so it's compiletime (even late compiletime like in eval blocks) fix binding to a value. i know i know we have my const $var = 5; my ithink my

Perl6::Doc - the next step

2008-01-17 Thread herbert breunung
hello dear list attendees after taken step 1 (reactivate p6doc and update to current state) and step 2 (perl.com articles)[thanks to all authors] , which is nearly finished (just fix some UTF problems) i have next plans. there are some interesting docs in the parrot svn regarding perl6 that

will be a computed goto in perl 6

2008-01-07 Thread herbert breunung
if we take TimTowtdi strictly, the anser would be yes :) sorry for nagging but my question about existence of ($min, $max) = @array.minmax also seems vaporized. cheers herbert

operator minmax

2008-01-03 Thread herbert breunung
just a small question, what speak against this construct: $min, $max = @a.minmax;

Re: Perl6::Doc # Hail to the new pharao

2007-12-31 Thread herbert breunung
for helping me with the interviews. there will be new content in the tables soon. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_table cheers and happy new year On Friday 28 December 2007 17:04:40 herbert breunung wrote: I have also plans to add my perl article (once they transelated) for $foo

Re: Perl6::Doc # Hail to the new pharao

2007-12-30 Thread herbert breunung
first of all thanks to Jonathan Scott Duff, you will be named in the scribes section of the p6doc documentation too and to chromatic: i will name the authors normally like in POD and make a link to perl.com/p6 section in the p6doc where sources of all docs are named. Conrad Schneiker: about

Re: Perl 6 Parrot Essentials as project documentation

2007-06-19 Thread herbert breunung
thats great because i actually use some parts for the article i currently write about perl6 and i think some musings about perl6 in theory could in this way flow back to the book because i think its not written the easiest way in some corners. but will see. great step herbert proton-ce.sf.net

Re: Sigils by example

2007-05-16 Thread herbert breunung
Larry Wall wrote: Language design is hard. Let's go shopping! :-) Larry daddy daddy i want a pony, oh wait the ponie is dead, i hope i didnt say something wrong :-)

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread herbert breunung
And to attract contributors, you have to have a convincing vision. right please make a decision for you to program in a language that has fame or one that you like most. as moritz said the special variables are now better sorted and some changes you write about are too far from perls basic

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread herbert breunung
herbert breunung schrieb: please make a decision for you to program in a language [..] [..] try python. [..] Oh, just because I think that they've some smart design decisions? Why not steal them? BTW: Why do so much people say go away if you don't like it instead of being open

Re: for ... else

2007-03-04 Thread herbert breunung
think it's not simple enough for this simple kind of problem. exactly, my full support to thomas with this, perl was always about keep simple things simple too. herbert breunung proton-ce.sf.net _ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu

Re: What criteria mark the closure of perl6 specification

2007-02-25 Thread herbert breunung
hi richard (eg. How out of date are the Exegesis files?) very *g* just use the synopsis *g* herbert (proton-ce.sf.net) ___ Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden. Sofort, online und kostenlos. Gleich testen!

Re: What criteria mark the closure of perl6 specification

2007-02-25 Thread herbert breunung
or include a disclaimer that they are outdated as juerd sugested, or do both. anyway this is an issue since google finds the A and E first. im really intrested if im with juerd the only one here seeing this as an issue. thanks herbert proton-ce.sf.net herbert (), Richard (): (eg. How out of

best of perl6 for tutorial

2006-05-12 Thread herbert breunung
like i wrote here before i startet to write an perl6tutorial. appendix C is made as an appetizer with some code examples in perl 5 vs perl 6 equivalent. the examples are so far: - junctive and chained comparsions, err operator - given - sub signature - minimal class with autogenerated

Re: best of perl6 for tutorial

2006-05-12 Thread herbert breunung
Thomas: i just asked what you think are the best perl6 feature, to show how improved the language in practical aspects. the tutorial itself is currently very much in flux and rewrites i can do much easier in my mothers tongue. regards herbert

german perl6 tutorial

2006-04-30 Thread herbert breunung
dear camels, especially all german speaking camels. im currently writing a perl6 tutorial in a wiki at: http://wiki.perl-community.de/bin/view/Wissensbasis/Perl6Tutorial Please join if you like or help when finished and nothing better there to translate to english. Its nearly half ready, vars,

int context ?

2006-04-10 Thread herbert breunung
hello perlisticers (my first post) i read in the perl6 book second edition something called /Integer context/ and /Numeric context/ Ican understand the difference but since nowhere in the synopses i read a word abou integer context im not shore if these concept is thrown away. is it the